The city is claiming the workers participated in "possible time clock fraud," but the accused, who didn''t speak English, said the incident that led to their firing was a miscommunication that was used as a means to an end to outsource their jobs, the article noted.

"They couldn''t say that we didn''t do our jobs, so they used a technicality that they could have given us a simple warning for," said Marcelina "Ada" Vierheilig, a janitor with the city for 14 years.